“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.